Posted on 03/10/2014 7:43:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
More than a thousand people marched on the state Capitol today demanding a repeal of Stand Your Ground legislation. When they left, they left with a threat.
Led by the Reverend Al Sharpton, police estimate 1200 people came from as far as Miami with a common goal.
“We’re trying to amend the Stand Your Ground law,” said Virginia Lawrence of College Park, GA. “Can you imagine all the injustice?”
On stage, Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-Jacksonville) called the state and Stand Your Ground “stuck on stupid.”
Trayvon Martin’s mother said she would not let her son die in vain. “Right is right and wrong is wrong,” said Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton. “Stand Your Ground is absolutely, positively wrong. And it has to be changed.”
And the mother of the Jacksonville teen killed over loud music said change must come. “It was a shady law known as Stand Your Ground that robbed his father and I of any hope for justice,” said mother of Jordan Davis, Lucia McBath.
The Reverend Al Sharpton told the crowd that Florida is “standin’ on shaky ground.” He said he’s here because this is where Stand Your Ground began. “It started in Florida. And we’ve come to start the ending of it in Florida.”
The biggest surprise came at the end: A call for boycotting two of Florida’s largest companies, Disney and Tropicana. That’s because the two support the group that pushed Stand Your Ground.
“And the small world is gon’ start crumblin’ down,” said Rev. Jamal Bryant. “And Tropicana, you gon’ feel the squeeze.”
As this was wrapping up, organizers say this was more than a march, this was a launch.
Organizers say they’ve given the companies until April 4th to help support the repeal or face the consequence. They chose that date in particular because it’s the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
sumbuddy take sharpton “to the BRIDGE” Yall
Is “Stand you ground” any different than say, a cat turning around and attaching itself to the dogs face, fighting back, maybe to the death?
Have African-Americans become such pathetic collectivists that they want to deny a right that every living thing has — a right to fight back against predators?
Ummm, yes.
So how many welfare recipients go to Disney World and drink Tropicana? Just asking.
PLEASE BOYCOTT! Florida could use the lower crime rates.
Illinois 2004 - Senate Bill 2386 / Public Act 93-0832
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[1] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?GA=93&DocTypeID=SB&DocNum=2386&GAID=3&SessionID=3&LegID=8536
[2] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0832&GA=93
That does it. I’m boycotting Illinois. ;)
Yup. Well said.
First of all, Trayvon Martin’s justified killing was not about “stand your ground”.
Second, just how much money are they spending now?
Wonder where all the money is coming from? I guarantee you it’s not Sharpton or Fulton’s wallets.
Why did they wait so long to tell us?? We could have passed SYG 15 years ago if we'd known!
Wrapped in a cretin.
Now that's funny right there, I don't care who ya are!
What kind of person runs out and trademarks their son’s name?
The same kind who isn’t in her son’s life for much of his life and when he does live with her kicks him out of the house to go stay with his father and Father’s girl-friend when he gets suspended from school.
Just remember his thug behaviors really got moving along the high speed track while he ‘lived’ with her in Miami. The drug use, the burglaries etc.
Statistically speaking that young black man was streaking down the highway to a life in prison or where he ended up... taking the dirt nap.
A boycott by those people would be a big security boost for the boycotted businesses.
“A call for boycotting two of Florida’s largest companies, Disney and Tropicana”...
Attendance will sore and prices will more than likely go down as odumbo’s sons and daughters go “flash mobbing” somewhere
Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis
Hmmm...
The usual blather, whining, bitching and moaning we've come to expect.
Just a pack of self-pitying chip-on-their-shoulders sheep. The real thing they hate is that, with CCW so effective here in Florida, it often means when they act like violent criminals they get shot. Can't have that!
good point ….
I don't care about Disney....but Tropicana may deserve some sort....these thugs need to LOSE big.
Bye-bye, revrund. Can’t miss you if you don’t leave.
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